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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"american cinema"”.
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Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
… a film noir subgenre that emerged in mainstream American cinema in the early 1970s and turns on vast, shadowy conspiracies located within U.S. "power structures" (government agencies, the military, the media) and directed against the American public. Specifically, it focuses on the emergence of …
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Queer Tropical Frames: New Representations of Queerness in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
… in the twenty-first-century upsurge of Latin American LGBTIQ-themed cinema. In my analysis, I challenge the pervasive Euro-centric focus in film studies about the region adopting an overarching decolonial framework. I emphasise the potential of using cultural and theoretical articulations on …
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Hybrid cinematics : rethinking the role of filmmakers of color in American cinema
… from Latin, Asian, Pacific, Native and African American communities, an amalgam of political, industrial, economic and technological shifts have both facilitated and hindered access to crucial funding and distribution opportunities, which in turn impacts their ability to control and shape their …
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First Ladies of Film: The Not so Silent Women of Early American Cinema
… between the years 1906 and 1926, the American film industry offered women opportunities that existed in no other workplace. This was the golden era of female filmmaking, when many women had a high degree of control behind the camera in creative roles such as producer, director, and …
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Heroes on the home front : heroism and virtue in post-9/11 American cinema /
… to contribute to critical discussion of the American male hero in mainstream American war and action films post September 11, 2001 . The thesis investigates how these heroes' behaviour echoes a patriotic, conservative construction of the modern American as created through speeches given by …
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The myth of the Black male beast in postclassical American cinema: ‘Forging’ stereotypes and discovering Black masculinities
The thesis examines how postclassical American film invents Black male characters. It uses Levi-Strauss and Barthes’ methods of analyzing myth and critiques hegemonic authorship through Jung’s work on archetypes in the collective unconscious and the ‘shadow’. Using Othello as a prototype character, …
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The Collision Of Romanticism And Modernism In Post-World War II American Cinema: A Theoretical Defense Of Intellectual History In The Undergraduate Classroom
… the established tradition of Romanticism in American culture, Rand also discussed the primary elements of literature, which could also be applied to film, and explained how one could determine whether or not a work of art represented Modernism or Romanticism.</p> <p> This study has two main …
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New man/new image culture/communication and Latin America identity
… the development of a new self-image of Latin American identity as manifested in the New Latin American Cinema Movement. Also, it attempts to help articulate intentions, strategies, and final products that are being formulated throughout the continent. The main part of this thesis is a …
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Deslanting the Lens
… how Asian men have been represented in popular American film. From the early days of “yellowface” to caricatures like Long Duck Dong, Asian men have been relegated to perpetual foreigner status in American cinema. This paper will explore why the portrayal of Asian men has been limited to very …
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A Cinematic Dialogue between Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Shaping a Transnational Cinema through Filmic Exchanges
… and the Centro Costarricense de Producción Cinematográfica (CCPC) privileged the social documentary format of the New Latin American Cinema (NLAC) movement to critically view current events from 1973 to 1979. By analyzing a variety of Costa Rican and Nicaraguan films, primarily …
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Addicted to the Addict: Hollywood's Sinuous Relationship With the Drug-Addict in the 1970s
… representation of the drug-addict in Hollywood cinema has changed due to governmental and studio policy change, social shifts of opinion, and economic structure. This discussion and exploration primarily focuses upon narrative Hollywood film as this industry has a long and varied history of …
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(De/Re)Constructing ChicanX/a/o Cinema: Liminality, Cultural Hyphenation, and Psychic Borderlands in <em>Real Women Have Curves</em> and <em>Mosquita y Mari</em>
<p>When discussing ChicanX/a/o cinema, as situated in the United States, its relationship to “American” cinema is one of decoloniality that interrogates the contradictions of a diverse yet homogenous national identity. The formation of cultural identity in conjunction with national identity is …
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Perceiving voids: Memory And Sight Afflictions In Contemporary Cinema
… disgregation of the classical and postclassical cinematographic characters, and affect cinematographic language, establishing a dialectical relation with the filmic image that contaminates our spectatorial perception. In the first chapter I propose a different reading of a few moments in film …
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
… began a process of creating a new condition of American thinking, severed from European cultural and intellectual influences. The subsequent lectures The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address furthered this process, calling for an original American literature. Emerson's writing called …
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Types in Transition: The Evolution of the Working Man in New Hollywood Cinema
… for around a decade, The New Hollywood era of American cinema represented a significant shift in both filmmaking style and practice. While scholars have traditionally located this break in either industrial or auteurist terms, Types in Transition argues that the quintessence of New Hollywood …
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Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation in Post-Colonial Indonesian Film Adaptations
… studies, namely, the hegemony of Anglo-American texts, the domination of former British colonies in post-colonial adaptation, and the homogenising construct of the East versus the West in most post-colonial criticism. The novel and the film adaptations recount the long, internal …
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Home Girls And Understudies: Shy Women In Cold War Theatre And Film
In contrast to studies of U.S. Cold War theatre and film which typically focus on the era's "crisis of masculinity," portrayals of mother-son relationships, and portrayals of dynamic and 'dangerous' women, this project examines constructions of shy young women. Primary play and musical texts, their …
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Mediated Masculinities: The Forms of Masculinity in American Genre Film, 1990-1999
… crisis films from 1990 to 1999 to map how cinematic forms constitute the potential to alter normative modes of masculinity. To launch this endeavor, I rely on a theoretical hybrid of Brinkema-Deleuze-Spinoza that foregrounds genre films as vibrant forms of difference. This foregrounding …
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Post-Cold War kids: changing representations of Russia and the Cold War in American children's film, 1992-2001
… of representations of Russia and the Cold War in American children's films from the 1990s. By analyzing nine movies, this work explores the question: what messages about Russia and the Cold War do nineties children's movies contain? This analysis explores the othering of Russian characters, the …
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